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David Cuthbertson of Square Mile Systems was kind enough to demonstrate his AssetGen software to myself and Denis last week.
Once the data has been inputed into a CMDB like AssetGen all sorts of very impressive reports can be generated very quickly.
Implementing a CMDB involves a heavy up front investment because you have to manually enter [...]

Intel have carried out a limited pilot to find out how a data centre would perform without the usual data centre environmental controls [PDF].
The top and bottom of it was that the servers, over a nine month test period performed as well whilst exposed to regular none air conditioned air and limited air filtration as [...]

Terry Slattery has some suggestions as to how you can use Amazon’s cloud computing offerings in implementing network management

Larry Augustin created an excellent comparison between European & American attitudes towards commercial open source software.
[via Aventures in Open Source]
Update: sorry for being a clutz, I forgot the link to the article. All sorted out now.

Google Code is a fabulous, minimalist open source development portal. I love it because there’s no faffing around and it uses lots of standard open source development tools like subversion.

One of the more bizarre design decisions Google made when they developed the service was to show changes to code and changes to the wiki pages [...]

The big selling point with cloud computing is that computing capacity grows and shrinks depending upon the load being put upon it. You typically only pay for CPU (by the hour) and storage (by the month) you actually use.
If your website enjoys a sudden surge in traffic, by appearing on the front page of slashdot [...]

Thought I’d share the network & systems management blogs I read on a daily basis in the hope that you’d share yours with me.
Network & Systems Management

Network Instruments Blog
Network Performance Daily
Lukas Beeler’s IT Blog
4sysops
Cisco Blog
Sentinel
Everything Sysadmin
Lone Sysadmin
Standalone Sysadmin
Last In – First Out
Jeff Hengesbach
IT Skeptic

Cloud Computing

RightScale Blog
Avastu Blog: Sustainable Global Clouds
The Wisdom of Clouds
Thinking Out [...]

OPENXTRA now have a channel on YouTube. We’ve started with three videos so far, more will follow soon. We’re monitoring how well things go and would be interested in any feedback you have. Either comment on here or leave your feedback on YouTube if you’ve got an account.
I know we’ve got some quality issues with [...]

A fine podcast discussing Jane Curry’s Open Source Management Options paper with Michael Coté, Jane Curry herself and John M Willis.